ITC 251 Lab Assessments 2

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Part 1 Report Writing

Pentaho Data Integration is an engine and a collection of tools that are in charge of the processes of
processing, converting, and loading, also known as ETL. Features of pentaho are: Unlocking new
capabilities, ETL capabilities for business intelligence needs, understanding pentaho report designer,
offers enhanced functionality and many more. We can use Pentaho to translate complex data into useful
reports and extract information from them. Pentaho facilitates the development of reports in a variety
of formats, including HTML, Text, CSV, Excel, PDF, and xml. Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) offers Extract,
Transform, and Load (ETL) capabilities to help with the process of capturing, cleansing, and storing data
in a standard and consistent format that is open to end users and IoT technologies. A transformation is a
system of conceptual functions known as measures. A directed graph of a logical set of data
transformation configurations is what the transformation is in essence. A transformation can begin at
any point, and all moves run in parallel.

Part 2 Pentaho Questions

1) Pentaho, a Hitachi Vantara subsidiary, is BI software that offers data integration, transform,
reporting, data mining, OLAP services, information dashboards, extract, and load (ETL)
capabilities. Talend is a cloud data integration pioneer that provides everyone with clean, full,
and uncompromised data. It assists you in converting your data from a responsibility to an asset.
Tableau itself is visual analytics engine that simplifies the development of interactive visual
analytics in the form of dashboards. The benefits for pentaho are: user friendly and easy to learn
the solution to all data integration needs and can be expanded and embedded in a variety of
locations. Benefits of talend are: ease of use, highly dependable band strong data integration
tools. And the benefits of tableau are: high performance, ease of use and inflexible pricing.

2 The Pentaho Open Source Business Intelligence suite includes Pentaho Data Integration (PDI). It
includes applications for all forms of business decision support, such as data warehouse
management utilities, analysis tools and data integration, management software, and data
mining tools. It offers Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) capabilities, which simplify the process
 of collecting, cleansing, and data storage in a standardized and consistent format that is usable
and applicable to end users and IoT technologies.

3 Data integration - It is the method of bringing together data from various sources into a single,
unified view.
Business Analytics - It is the mechanism which the companies analyze historical data using
statistical techniques and technology in order to obtain new insights and enhance strategic
decision-making.
Cloud Analytics - It is the on-demand analysis of data using remote public or private computing
services (known as the cloud).

4 Report Designer - It has a graphical interface that lets you identify data sources, datasets, and
queries, as well as report layout positions for data regions and fields, as well as collaborative
features including parameters and report sets that work together.
Design Studio - It is a place where artists and artisans focus on new item or object conception,
design, and development.
Aggregation Designer - Improves the efficiency of your Pentaho Analysis (Mondrian) OLAP cubes
by simplifying the design and deployment of aggregate tables.
Metadata Editor - It's computer software that lets users display and modify metadata tags on
the computer monitor before saving these to a digital image.

5 Significance of Pentaho Metadata is that it converts the database's physical structure to a logical
business model.

6 At runtime, metadata injection inserts data from different sources into a transformation. This
insertion decreases the number of repeated ETL tasks.

7 Pentaho Reporting assessment is a collection of its reporting tasks, skills, and resources
designed for initial evaluation, such as obtaining the study, generating and editing
documentation, and displaying and conducting various interactions.

8 Benefits of Data Integration: Better Collaboration and deployment, availability of real-time

integrated data, helps in achieving better partnerships and customer relationships, saves Time,
Boosts Efficiency and Reduces Errors, and making Excellent Business Decisions.

9 MDX is a query language that is used to extract data from multidimensional databases (Multi-
Dimensional eXpressions). MDX is a query language that can be used to query Research Services
for multidimensional data in two different ways.

10 Transformation Jobs - Used for data preparation and used only when data changes are not
completed before transformation of the data job.
 Provisioning Jobs - Used for vast amounts of data transmission/transfer. Used only if no changes
are permissible unless work and a broad supply demand are transformed.
Hybrid Jobs - Run transformation and supply jobs. No data changes restrictions; success/failure
notifications may be available. In this case, the transformation and supply necessary are not
essential.

11 Transformations include shifting and converting lines from source to destination whereas jobs
are more concerned with high-level flow control: transferring files via FTP, sending failure
emails, and executing transformations.

12 PDI allows you to combine two tables from the same database by using the ‘Table Input'
process, which performs the join in SQL only. And for joining two tables in different database
there’s a ‘Database Join’ step. We could also use the ‘Merge Join’ stage with a SQL query has a
‘Order By’ clause.

13 No, we cannot sequentialize transformations in Pentaho because in Pentaho Data Integration,

all transformations of steps/operations run in hospital.

14 Yes, pentaho offers a clone row step that can clone objects or rows in the same way as the main
row.

15 Pentaho Data Mining is a robust suite of machine learning and data mining techniques.

16 PDI consists of several components like: spoon – Main GUI

carte - HTTP server for remote execution of Jobs / Transformations.
Pan - Command line execution of Transformations.
Kettle - All of the tools
Kitchen - Command line execution of Jobs.
Encr - Command line tool for encrypting strings for storage / use by PDI.

17 Pentaho Report Designer – a WYSIWIG tool that allows you to generate reports through a
graphical user interface rather than programmatically or by directly creating and manipulating
XML. The Pentaho Reporting Engine Classic or the Pentaho BI Server can then run these reports.

18 Transactional Reports: The aim is to deliver detailed and comprehensive information for day-to-
day company operations such as sales reporting and sales order.
Tactical Reports: The objective is to describe short-term data for quick decision making while
swapping merchandise.
 Strategic Reports: Data is gathered from common and trustworthy sources to create long-term
company information documents such as season sales analysis.
Helper Reports: Data is taken from different sources and includes photographs and videos to
depict various activities.

19 Advantages are:
- Business Intelligence platform that is simple and easy to use.
- Provides a broad range of BI capabilities such as reporting, dashboards, collaborative
analysis, data mining, data integration, and so on.
- It has a user-friendly design and a variety of methods for retrieving data from various
sources.

20 Disadvantages are:
- When compared to other BI methods, this tool evolves at a much slower rate.
- Poor community support.
- The interface design can be bad, and there is no single interface for all elements.